Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Recensão de ‘Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis’, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025

Rita Gameiro — 2025-06-30

Editoras: Ana Teresa Vale, Renata Vives

Opening Pandora’s Box:

Ednéia Albino Nunes Cerchiari — 2025-06-30

This article aims to present the GAC – Clinical Care Group of COWAP Brazil in its efforts to combat intrafamilial violence against women. We begin by considering the specific context of such violence in Brazil. Next, we discuss the origins and objectives of GAC, as well as its theoretical, technical, and methodological approach, inspired by Esther Bick's infant observation method. The patient sample is characterized through socio-demographic data. We then share fragments of a clinical case followed by discussion. The article concludes with a psychoanalytic understanding of trauma in clinical practice.

Contemporary Couples

Éric Smadja — 2025-06-30

After outlining the historicity of contemporary couples, the author presents his psychoanalytic and multidimensional conception of the couple. He then addresses the structural and unconscious psychological organizing processes involved in the construction of any couple, as well as the process of choosing a marital object and its historicity. However, the construction and life of any couple requires genuine work. This is couple work, an interdisciplinary concept that helps interpret marital events relevant to each of the three realities. It notably contributes to the culture and identity of couples.
In the following, the author describes some sociological characteristics of contemporary couples as well as those of our society, which is notably pervaded by paradoxical currents. Finally, the author develops some psychoanalytic and socio-anthropological reflections on our society and these contemporary couples, of which they are exemplary representatives.

Experiences of the Body in Trans People

Daniel Matias — 2025-06-30

The trans phenomenon is currently understood as being representative of a whole series of tensions on a social, political and cultural level, as well as in the way the clinic views these formulations. Central to this discourse is that the body emerges as an important dimension, considering its transformations as representative of a greater degree of personal freedom. This study seeks to address the experience of trans people’s bodies. Using the terms proposed by Lemma (2022), we sought to understand the experience provided by the study participants in relation to the ‘given body’ and the ‘right body’/ideal body. Methodologically, we opted for qualitative research, using the biographical-narrative-interpretative method. In terms of the results obtained, it was found that the period of puberty/adolescence is of particular importance in the transition between the given body and the ideal body, with a diversity of positions transpiring in relation to this formation. The transition process is given deep reflection, with surgery appearing as an option rather than an obvious necessity. In its concluding remarks, the study points to the ethical implications of psychoanalytic theory and practice in dealing with this phenomenon.

Nota Editorial

2025-06-30

The Aggressor and the Denier

Marcos — 2025-06-30

This work deals with the concern regarding the advent of the theory of denial based on the work of Sándor Ferenczi. It is clear that, although the aggressor-denial duality is constantly pointed out as the cause of the problems studied through the Ferenczian lens, the acts of aggression and denial are supported by constitutive psychic resources. In this way, we present a construction regarding these two elements, not only as the cause of traumatogenesis, but as part of the psyche, in the face of a critical consideration that denounces both social pacts that selectively authorize some types of aggression, and the daily behavior of aggression itself. and deny. Finally, an ethical-political expansion of the understanding of the term denied is proposed.

The Great Illusionist and the Digital Double

Filipe Leão Miranda — 2025-06-30

This paper reflects on the relationship between human beings and digital technology and its impact on the development and functioning of the mind. It considers the disruptive effect of the accelerated introduction of the digital, the profound changes in the organisation of social and family life, and the potential consequences of the absence of time for the maturation of the adaptive processes necessary for structuring the mind. The aim is to understand how the hyperconnected life in the digital space, from childhood onwards, interferes with the proper construction of mental space. Potential risks of psychopathological configurations are identified in terms of reality apprehension, the ability to think and subjective emotional experience, as a result of the experience of space and time’s distortion, which seems to offer a distinct geometry of reality. By analysing the different characteristics of generative Artificial Intelligence, we explore the possible reasons for its creation and the risks inherent in the interaction between human beings and machines, considering the illusory component of the experience and the unbearable finitude inherent to the human condition. Psychoanalysis is proposed as an appropriate theoretical/clinical framework for problematising/intervening in the phenomena arising from the coalescence of mental and digital spaces.

The frozen feminine

Katy Bogliatto — 2025-06-30

In this paper illustrated with a clinical vignette, the author aims to unfold some facets of the complexity of the psychic work of symbolization experienced by each woman undergoing assisted reproduction, as the body is subject to internal and external stimulations. The author proposes to listen to the somatosensory elements as a field of exploration in search of representations and eventually enabling conflicts and fantasies to be questioned and linked with the vicissitudes of the archaic infantile that lies in every one of us, understood as an unconscious field lacking in representations containing the most undifferentiated zone between self and object, between soma and psyche as well as the vestiges of the primary traces between mother and child.

Desafios da Contemporaneidade à Parentalidade e ao Desenvolvimento Infantil

2025-06-30

Parentalidade e Infância

Maria José Martins de Azevedo — 2025-06-30

«Se não Sabe Porque é Que Pergunta?»

Rita de Araújo Gameiro — 2025-06-30

As Funções Parentais e seus Problemas Atuais

Carla Cruz — 2025-06-30

Tal Pai, Tal Filho ou a (Re)Criação de uma Nova História

Margarida Bilreiro — 2025-06-30